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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (one) tank (called) Tamilnāḍukāttaperamāḷ-taḍāgam whose water was held more sacred than the nectar-like water of all rivers usually considered very sacred ; (one garden called) Kāḍavalamāran-tōppu having the fragrance of honey-stored flowers with the bumming of beetles : (one) garden (called after) Avaniyāḷappirandān which impeded the course of the sun having fine swift horses : (one) garden (called after) Śēnaittalaivan (the commander-in-chief) well-known in the world ; (one) Ammaimaḍam which afforded shade of flower-bearing trees that cooled the minds of persons who had walked through dreary forests on hot days : (one tank called) Ayyanēri : (one well called) Vaḍi-Vāḷvallaperumāḷ-kiṇara, which, as if by breaking open the interior of a hill, admitted the how of nectar-like water from a deep cavity ; (one) tank (called after) Kāḍavakumāran with cool water in which blossomed lotuses and water-lilies (frequented by) humming bees ; (one) lake (called after) Venrumalaikoṇḍaperumāḷ whose long bund was so raised as if it were a range of hillocks ; (one grove called) Bharatamvallaperumāḷ-tōppawhich excelled the forest thick-set with celestial trees : (one) garden (called after) Vīrarāyan, filled with fragrance issuing from very tender flower-sheafs where the beetles ever hum : (one) lake (called after) Niśśaṅkamallan which was so filled with water that it resembled the sea and which made the fields yield in the Kār (season) ; it was given to . . . in the high lineage of Sundara who followed the way of the ascetics : (one) tank and maṭha (called after) Gāṅgayan : (one) grove filled with fragrant plants.
All these he made so well as to present a beautiful appearance. One account of these acts, the Assembly of the 18,000,─who ever looked with favour upon those that bore on their heads the lotus feet of Ardhanārīśvara, who ever smeared their bodies with sacred ashes, whose minds were filled with righteous ways dictated in the Āgamas, whose commands drove off the heretical faiths, and who were considered to be the devotees that learnt themantra of the five letters direct from the god Jaṭādhara (Śiva) wearing the crescent and a plait of hair on his head and assuming the from of Ādinātha received on his head Gaṅga when she rushed forth in thousand faces making great noise,─were graciously pleased and blessed him saying ‘Let him ever live peacefully in this world’. ABSTRACTS OF CONTENTS II Hail ! Prosperity ! In the seventh year (of the reign) of Sakalabhuvanachakravartin Śri-Kō-pPeruñjiṅgadēva, on the day of Rēvatī, corresponding to Friday, the fourth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Siṁha (this was engraved) …… In the 29th year (of the reign) of [Tri]bhuvanavīradēva, when this Śrīvimāna, having become dilapidated, had been pulled down and reconstructed, the old inscriptions that were found there, had been (re-engraved) ……. Details of boundaries of several fields─ left unfinished. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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